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Perfectly preserved foal that died 30,000 to 40,000 years ago
The details are amazing, it makes the Ice Man look like the mummy it is. The smallest hairs and body details survived quite well. One can only wonder what the most unexpected find might be as the permafrost continues to melt. Anything could be buried there. It was found in the bottom of the Siberian Batagaika crater, measures 1 kilometer long by 100 meters deep. It opened up in the 1960s but has a very unstable interior. It could have up to 200,000 years of frozen time but apparently because of the unstable condition it is not easy to see what happened.
History of Batagaika crater
The details are amazing, it makes the Ice Man look like the mummy it is. The smallest hairs and body details survived quite well. One can only wonder what the most unexpected find might be as the permafrost continues to melt. Anything could be buried there. It was found in the bottom of the Siberian Batagaika crater, measures 1 kilometer long by 100 meters deep. It opened up in the 1960s but has a very unstable interior. It could have up to 200,000 years of frozen time but apparently because of the unstable condition it is not easy to see what happened.
History of Batagaika crater